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    I’m to young for the first one but too old for the second one. I’m also used to society ignoring my generation so that’s fine.

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      I’m a millennial but too old to have ever watched Blue’s Clues, so I couldn’t give two shits when Steve left.

      Also, it’s hilarious that this meme completely ignores Gen X.

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        I’m an older millenial that identifies closer to Gen X. I think mine would be … Will Smith crying to Uncle Phil about his dad on Fresh Prince? That was pretty iconic. Wasn’t a good bye or finale one though.

        Seinfeld finale was kinda bleh. I skipped Roseanne, Friends and Frazier’s finales to be honest and the fact no one references them never made me catch up. The Simpsons seemingly won’t die. I’d say Futurama but like, it keeps coming back with declining quality. I guess I can’t choose?

        What would yours be?

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          Steve wasn’t the finale of Blue’s Clues, so I don’t think it has to be a series finale. For me in the 90s, I can’t think of any tv shows that made me cry, but i can think of quite a few movies. Over all, My Girl is probably the only one that completely destroyed me emotionally.

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            Two main things I remember about that finale. Cliff ending the conversation on shoes because their topic was about shoewear. Lastly, Sam saying to the incoming patron: “we’re closed”.

            I loved Cheers.

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          I fell off from Friends and Frasier years before they ended, partially because I didn’t have time to watch tv at that point, but for Friends it was also because I just didn’t care anymore. Not sure whether I can really say I was representative of the Xennial demographic though. The finale of Roseanne, on the other hand, was the groaner of a punchline to the hack comedian’s joke that the final season was, so it certainly wasn’t iconic either.

          That scene from Fresh Prince that you picked is a great one. I made another comment suggesting Atreyu trying to save Artax, and I suppose I should add the super dark finale of Dinosaurs. Otherwise I can’t think of much else; so many of the iconic characters I grew up watching wore out their welcomes because tv execs in the ‘90s somehow figured out how to suffocate the lightning they caught in a bottle.

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      Not from USA. Well the last one I guess you could know as is from YouTube, that said I didn’t know who the guy was or is either.

      Honestly I haven’t seen any of that I know the rest because of reddit mentioning them in another moments. Again not from the US.

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        I’m a millennial from the US and I’ve never seen even an episode of Blue’s Clues.

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          It’s from Nickelodeon it seems so I guess you need to have the channel first and then watch it and watch it when they did it…

          I mean where I am from the private cable tv wasn’t as common so it was easier for people to see most of the stuff as all was free over the air tv, as long as you had a tv and antenna that’s it.

          On America it seems like it would be easier I guess for people not see certain things if they didn’t have cable or their didn’t have certain channel or similar.

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        I wish I could claim I wasn’t from the US because its embarrassing to live here right now, but I am. Never watched a single episode of blues clues, it was popular when I was in high school.

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        Gen x got MASH reruns and internalised the theme song “suicide is painless”

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          I woke up, read your comment and have the flippin’ song bouncing around in my head since.

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        Yeah, I used to wash MASH with my parents because one house TV’s and primetime. It was ok. I watched the finale, It was ok.

        I was a hell of a lot sadder when the dropped Hogans Heroes from syndication.

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      Older millennials too, I don’t give a shit about Blue’s Clues. Then again, I’m dead inside, just like an older millennial

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    *American

    Still watched and liked MASH in my country in 90s as a kid (although not my choice) enough to introduce my wife to it a year ago and she enjoyed it too, having never heard of it. No clue what the other 2 things even are.

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    I‘m a millennial but too… old? Annoyed by it? to have watched blues clues other than by accident while playing Gameboy. According to Google it aired from 1996 to 2006 here, which means that I was ages 2 to 12. It was just too dumb for me. Matt Patt on the other hand, I watched it grow since its start in the golden era of YouTube, the. I stopped when the dark ages started at around 2017-ish. Now I‘m sad that I didn’t do anything good in my life until May of last year.

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      Millennial is such a huge range anyway. In 1996 I was 12. There was no way I would have been watching Blue’s Clues.

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      You’re on the tail end of Millennial, and it definitely sounds like you were the target age for Blues Clues. I’m right in the middle of the Millennial years and I was 9 when that show came out, so I only know it as that thing my friend’s little brother watched. I have more feelings about MatPat leaving, even if I stopped watching years ago. Point is, I don’t think this meme is very accurate.

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        Sounds about right.

        I believe FNAF getting mega-popular was the precise moment when the scales tipped for me and I officially became old. I looked at it, and I decided that it’s just dumb and I can’t comprehend why the kids these days are so into it. I mean, I know the real draw is watching streamers or whoever freak out at all the jump scares and act ridiculous. But that’s a pastime that doesn’t appeal to me in any form whatsoever. Just, get that kind of thing off my lawn.

        I did watch a ton of Game Theories videos, though.

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          I wanna point out, recognizing something isn’t for you doesn’t make you old. Your refusal to recognize it as something someone else enjoys is where that boomer mentality comes in. That’s just a theory, a BOOMER theory

          Truly an internet staple

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      I had the same exact thought, but I suppose a lot of people born after 1990 would have witnessed it or the rerun and maybe felt something, but otherwise it was completely obscure. TBH I don’t really recall any of the shows from my childhood ending with a goodbye, I wasn’t all that fortunate to be worrying about those things.

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      I was going to say I don’t really recognize any of them, although they’re vaguely familiar …. yes, forgotten again

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        The only reason I knew it was M.A.S.H. was the font/color.

        In this case, I don’t feel too bad being missed. Keep your head down and stay out of the news :)

        That said, I watched Theorists with my tween. Kinda sad seeing MP go, but not as sad as MP was.

        I expect the channels will go tits up without his personality. The new hosts are pleasant but honestly unremarkable. The show was far less about the content and more of his performance. If you thought the idea was crap, you subliminally blamed it on him. There are plenty of other personalities out there doing what they’re doing and almost all of them go on unknown because they don’t have screen chemistry.

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      gen x is overlooked way too often, a ton of millennial media were made by gen x

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    Only knew Film Theorists but didn’t really like them… but I’m sorry for everyone who misses them, I can imagine that it’s painful when someone you like stops producing such content.